Jazz à la Philharmonie / Remember Stan Getz - Sylvain Rifflet - Philharmonie de Paris

Saxophoniste vibrant au jeu ample et délicat, Stan Getz est l’un des géants américains du jazz. Son esprit se trouve ici invoqué avec ferveur par un large aréopage de musiciens sous la direction de Sylvain Rifflet, lui-même remarquable saxophoniste. Ayant démarré, encore adolescent, sa carrière de saxophoniste dans les années 1940 et joué jusqu’à son dernier souffle (rendu en 1991), Stan Getz a déposé une empreinte indélébile dans l’histoire du jazz. Protagoniste majeur des mouvances cool jazz et jazz West Coast, il a en outre gravé plusieurs albums splendides sous l’influence des musiques brésiliennes, de la bossa nova en particulier. Riche de multiples nuances, son jeu se caractérise par son ampleur autant que par sa finesse. Saxophoniste aventureux, admirateur de Stan Getz (dont il a récemment revisité avec éclat le légendaire album Focus), Sylvain Rifflet conduit deux soirs durant un large panel de musiciens dans l’univers sinueux et voluptueux du géant américain. Frissons garantis… Lieu : Salle des concerts - Cité de la musique

Jeff Ballard

Melissa Aldana

Simon Dechambre

Sylvain Rifflet

Quatuor Appassionato

Airelle Besson

Akemi Fillon

Mathieu Herzog

Chris Cheek

Rémi Rière

Nelson Veras

Florent Nisse

Julien Lourau

Pascal SCHUMACHER

Pascal Schumacher has been described as a “Goldsmith” in his art, a boundary-pushing musician, a resourceful improviser and an imaginative composer. Keen to explore the links that exist between many musical genres, it is difficult to pigeon–hole his talent, his taste or his musical influences. One thing is certain: he is a Vibraphone player with a unique aptitude and sensitivity who manages to inject panache and flamboyance into every performance.  His flair for improvisation is married to a lucid inventiveness which together create an original sound as visionary as it is melodic.  As a physical performer, he is skilful, far-reaching and theatrical without being pretentious, making his performances inclusive and interesting to watch. Since he gave birth to his first serious musical project in 1995, his musical partnerships and projects resemble his eclectic nature.  His duo with Jef Neve produces a hybrid that has been described as somewhere between pop-infused contemporary music and classic-infused jazz. The Pascal Schumacher Quartet has a potent hook-laden feel that creatively destroys all notions of the polite dinner jazz associations of the past and produces a contemporary sound that is beautiful, melodic and effortlessly articulated. As a composer he writes not only for the quartet and chamber music ensembles, but has also been involved in film, theatre and dance projects. In 2009 he was involved in a ground- breaking Multi-Media project “CTRL variations”, a trans-disciplinary theatre project entitled "LUXTIME – Jacques Tati revisited" and is currently writing a soundtrack for a silent movie starring Marlene Dietrich.  He is a laureate of no less than three of Europe’s most notable Conservatories from his home town of Luxembourg as well as those in the Hague, Strasbourg and Brussels.  He now teaches in the Luxembourg Conservatory and in the HFM (Hochschule für Musik) in Saarbrücken, Germany. A laureate of the Luxembourg Conservatory, he has now come full circle and teaches there. Pascal Schumacher is set to release  “Bang My Can” his 5th album for PSQ and his 3rd project for Enja Records since signing with them in 2008.